> I don't want people in other OSS projects emulating him. This strikes me as a self-regulating problem... Linus gets to Linus for a lot of the same reasons J

> I don't want people in other OSS projects emulating him. This strikes me as a self-regulating problem... Linus gets to Linus for a lot of the same reasons Jobs got to Jobs. Try to port those attitudes to other areas, less successful areas, and you're gonna hit human factors. Namely: people aren't gonna tolerate jerks without cause. Linus is not a role model, he's running a highly important and specific project. He's not dealing with weekend coders, he's wrangling senior types IBM, RedHat, MS, and Google. If those corporate titans don't like how he writes on his mailing list they're welcome to fork off into the sunset ;)